Key: E major
Verse 1
D
Bm
There's a wind across the prairie
G
D
Breathing low as it goes by
G
D
Bm
The last grey geese swing southward
G
D
For their voices fill the sky
F#m
A
Bm
It dies earlier each day
A
G
D
It's the passing of the season
D
Bm
And out across the distance,
A
G
moving onward sure is time
D
Bm
There's another diesel freight train,
A
G
D
moving down along the line
D
F#m
A
Bm
past the bridges and the farms
A
G
D
Through the grey of old December,
A
D
into January's arms
G
D
Yes, it's winter across the line.
And there's not a job that's easy,
F#m
G
A
but everybody takes his time.
G
F#m
Against another old blue northern,
A
Bm
against another driving snow.
G
D
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
D
G
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
D
F#m
A
but here it's thirty -two below.
G
D
Asus4
D
G
D
Em
A
D
Bm
Now there's beauty in the gentle white
A
G
that settles all in the town.
D
Bm
But there's danger in the mountains,
A
G
when that snow comes sliding down
D
G
And you don't know where
A
Bm
when you're out upon the crew
D
Bm
Gotta keep those trains a -runnin'
A
G
through the February hail
D
G
F#m
And check the brakes outside of Mandan
Bm
A
G
D
We'll fix a track somewhere near Denver
A
D
in a rocky mountain storm
G
D
is this winter cross the line?
Asus4
A
G
D
Against another old blue northern,
F#m
A
against another driving snow
Bm
G
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
D
A
but here it's thirty to below
D
Em
G
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
D
A
but here it's thirty to below
Interlude 1
D
Bm
G
D
Bm
G
D
G
D
A
Bm
G
D
A
D
G
Bm
D
A
Verse 2
D
Bm
From Chicago to St. Louis,
G
D
From Seattle to St. Paul,
A
G
D
and once again I'll hear that call
G
F#m
From the wild geese heading northward,
Bm
A
G
D
There are many miles of track out there,
A
D
this stretch depends on me
G
D
yes it's winter across the line
A
G
D
Against another old blue northern,
Bm
A
G
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
D
A
but here it's 32 below
F#m
G
D
here's this winter across the land
And there's not a job that's easy,
F#m
G
A
but everybody takes a stand
G
D
Against another old blue northern,
Bm
A
G
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
D
A
D
but here it's 30 to below
G
D
Somewhere we're warm and welcome,
A
G
D
A
D
G
D
G
but here it's 30 to below
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